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so I had a dream last night that me and my husband went to have dinner with @thebibliosphere and her mothman and I remember basically nothing EXCEPT after dinner I went to go wash their pans cos I wanted to be a good guest

but

brain

they have a *dishwasher*

BRAIN

YOU CAN'T EVEN LET ME DO MY OWN DISHES AND YOU WANT ME TO DO SOMEONE ELSE'S?

smh 🤦‍♀️

#dream #sheriff rambles #oi vey

#sheriff rambles #just opened a text post to complain that a post I was working on got devoured when I accidentally closed the app #and I was totally gonna complain about it!#but then tumblr was like 'hey you wanna restore this' and I was like oh thank goodness I don't have to write all that stuff out AGAIN #tldr I'm posting stuff about OC names tomorrow because I got caught up reading my original fic from 2016 #or maybe I'll get caught up tomorrow too and post it the day after #somebody send me a reminder is what I'm saying #things die in my drafts cos I just heckin forget

What is your current writing project?

*heavy breathing*

okay so. CURRENTLY. I'm on a hyperfixation train for dqb2 (dragon quest builders 2). I LOVE IT. so naturally I created an AU for it after spamming the everliving hell out of the tag for the game because y'know. one-shot evolved its own plot. as they do.

and the one-shot in question was a masquerade ball! because of course it was. one scene evolved into a chapter, and then I realized the scene was too long, so I split it up between a few days, then suddenly I was looking at what essentially became a 22k prologue...

and THEN I wrote the following year following those two characters. (Malroth my beloved--) I actually just finished the first year on my ao3! :D like, literally last night lol. slow-burn, 164k or something bonkers like that, you get the drift. (I'd link but tumblr eats them or something?? my ao3 profile is the same as my username, it wouldn't be hard to find. or DM me :D)

SO. RIGHT NOW. I'm starting year two. WHICH WILL BE FULL OF DELICIOUS ANGST. because I am mean to my characters. :D I mean D:

so yeah. year two will have a wedding! and a near-miss of a wedding! and because Malroth is the prince (because of course he is) he has to do princely things! (he's been in hiding up to this point so he could be "normal" at university because why not). and maybe get kidnapped by pirates. good times!

but until then I'm literally stuck in chapter two because I don't know how to start a book apparently. XD (I'm supposed to be writing cute fluff. this should be easy! why am I worried about "proper hooks" when this is the second book and nobody will be starting here? brain please just write fluff. any fluff. even if it doesn't make it to the final draft. I BEG YOU.)

so, yeah. writing!

#sheriff rambles #writing #hi lil sis! :D #winterknightdragon

OC Name meanings

tagged by @randomstupidchaos

okay, so I think we all know that I primarily write a bunch of fanfic. so a lot of my characters come pre-built with names. there are several that I came up with myself, but if I only listed those names, it wouldn't even look like my book anymore, so I'm gonna define all of them anyway. (except for Malroth. I have little idea what his name means or where it comes from. it's not even his name from his starting language. who knows!)

that said I do have ONE original story (I have not worked on it in so long agh) and I will do that one at the end.

Builderverse

Crea- short for Create. stole it from the tutorial lmao.

Aris- short for Arisplotle. who is a slime. dragon quest has a thing about slimes having pun names, you know? (granted in maskverse I named him Aristaeus, which he hates, and it means some variation of "best" because he's the best boy.)

of note, in Maskverse specifically, "Malroth" is a nickname he made up for himself that he could use while in hiding as the prince so no one could sus him out. his first name is Troy. this is because his mom is Hellen and I thought it would be funny. Hellen of Troy from illiad fame is now Troy of Hellen in my story. (it's really not that funny, is it?) (yes this is basically the sole reason I made Hellen from the game his mom for the sake of the story. good times!)

of the main builders cast I'm mostly interested in Rosie (self-explanatory since she's a gardener), Babs (comes from Barbara which means stranger), and Anessa. From the (weirdly few) posts I can find about this name, Anessa is short for Agnessa, which is another form of Anges. in Greek, Agnes is pure/holy/chaste/satisfaction (everyone gives a different one lol), which I find interesting given her role in the story.

of other interesting note, Warwick can mean from the settlement by the weir (which I guess is a dam), but it also can mean "strong leader who defends". personally I think they went with his name because "war" is in it and hi that's what his island is known for.

Ludovic itself means Famous war/battle, but I chose it because the Spanish version of builders named Warwick "Ludovico" and I needed another antagonist.

Damara is Greek for "gentle" which makes sense cos she was created to be a mentor character. ended up later adopting Malroth but she lended well to it XD

Griswold- english was grey forest or grey land, french it was a ruler with grey hair (which is kinda weird because in game he is VERY bright blue). that said, I think they picked it because it kinda sounds like gristle, which is related to bone, which he is a skeleton.

Floria- flower. just thought it's fun to have a hypercompetent soldier be named Flower because her parents wanted her to be a nice proper lady. (she said fuck that.)

that's all that's coming to mind on that.

Sirens

Patrick- nobleman (english)

Jonathan- God has given (hebrew)

Scotia- person from Scotland (english) (she's not Scottish tho I just liked how it sounded)

Troy- footsoldier (greek) (don't ask me how I got two of these)

Easton- from the east (he arrives to the story from far away)

Brinda- from the basil plant (india) (again I liked the sound)

Kurt- courteous (american) (it's funny because he's overtly sarcastic with everyone but Brinda and then he turns into a teddy bear. only Patrick ever sees it tbh)

Felice- fortunate/happy (latin)

Tahlia- morning dew (hebrew). also because my dad always joked about naming me Talitha so I played with the letters.

Sera- shortened from Saraphim, which is an angel (something latin related)

I have other characters that only appear in book 2, but given I haven't touched that story since 2014-2016, I don't think it's going anywhere enough to bother listing here.

#writing #sheriff chats #sheriff rambles #my writing

ughhh I haven't touched pokemon go in like two years but they have a masterwork research event for shiny freakin' jirachi which hasn't been available since like. ever? there's only like 9 in existence from the old days and it's barely been possible to get a legit jirachi to begin with... (until BDSP but I'm not talking about that.)

and I'm like. is it worth it. to start again now?

do I want to commit to a bazillion hours of research to get one?

(have I already committed to a million hours of resets in the past, see also arceus/shaymin/darkrai, and will do so again? shhh)

... I need to figure out how gyms work lol

#sheriff rambles #pokemon

#sheriff rambles #webb telescope #it's so weird #I keep seeing photos from the new webb telescope #which are amazing and wonderful #but every time I've seen one today I've just looked at it and gone #'yeah that's exactly what it looks like; it's always looked like that.'#but it HASN'T #not in pictures anyway #and I keep getting this weird sense of calm unease #like I've *been* there before #like I've seen them before #like I've always known what they were supposed to look like #I remember when I was a kid we had a big jug of marbles #and I had one I called my pluto marble #we wouldn't get color photos of Pluto for another 20 years #and wouldn't you know it #Pluto was the same color palette as that marble #what did I know when I was a kid?#how do I remember these places I can't reasonably have memories from?

#learning how to be nice to yourself is hard #sheriff rambles #like I've been trying to be better at listening to myself right #but for so long I've put myself aside to make other people happy and do what they want #so naturally I needed a lot of practice to recognize what I was telling myself that I wanted #and naturally these days when I don't quite get there and automatically brush myself aside I just get extremely grumpy with myself!#which is part of needing to recognize myself after three decades of not; right?#but then I sulk #and I keep sulking #and I keep thinking 'I should just tell someone what I wanted half an hour ago because I still want it'#and then I don't #and I don't #and I... don't #until I'm alone at night and trying not to yell at myself in my head #and I have to wonder why I can't be nicer to myself #it's been a long several weeks y'all #I just wish I could be nicer to myself #being nice to other people is comparatively easy for me

#sheriff rambles #is it impressive or sad that I've got the shiny resetting thing down to a science?#like knowing the right level of engagement into something else so I can multitask and not cry #having a specific body part that I lock onto in order to check quickly if it is or isn't #having the timing down and logging audio cues so I know when to look and what sequence to follow before that without looking #like is this cool or am I autistic #I know both is an option but still #wish I could get a job that I could use all this pokemon knowledge for